First grade teacher Gwen Smith was happily married--until her husband got himself a twenty-something mistress and filed for divorce. Now just months away from turning forty-one, Gwen is back in...
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Author: Day, ZuriSummary:Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Coombs, KateSummary:Come down to the shore with this rich and vivid celebration of the ocean! With moving poems by Kate Coombs, this collection of poems evokes the beauty and power, the depth and mystery, and the...
Genre: Juvenile poetry -
Author: Davis, Tanita S.Summary:Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:
Twin brothers struggle with the responsibilities of adulthood and family in the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf coast.
Genre: Bildungsromans -
Author: Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:
Medical doctor Marie Levant--descendant of the legendary Voodoo Queen Mari Laveau--is tired of seeing blood-drained corpses arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their...
Genre: Paranormal fiction -
Author: Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:
Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Thomas, JacquelinSummary:
All her life, small-town Georgia girl Jessie Belle Holt has known how to use men. Her ticket out of Mayville is Traynor Deveraux, a trusting pastor with a brilliant career ahead. Seduced by the...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:
Working in the ER, Dr. Marie Lavant sees the darkest side of New Orleans. But the bloody wounds of patients are not the only things that haunt her. As the descendent of a legendary voodoo queen,...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Sawyer, Kim VogelSummary:
When the paths of a mother seeking sanctuary for her son Nicky and a doctor serving the immigrant population in Queens cross, the two suddenly become wrapped up in each other's callings, seeking a...
Genre: Romance fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Sidman, JoyceSummary:A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.
Genre: Juvenile poetry -
Author: Skurzynski, GloriaSummary:There are tons of movies about aliens coming to Earth. Sometimes they come to be our friends, sometimes they come to destroy us-and sometimes they come to make circles in our cornfields. But what...
Genre: Juvenile nonfiction, Math and science -
Author: McFadden, Bernice L.Summary:
Blackboard best-seller Sugar is the superb first novel by Bernice L. McFadden. An emotional journey from grief and suffering to understanding and forgiveness, Sugar will keep you turning pages...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Sexton, Margaret WilkersonSummary:This historically inspired story of two black women one hundred years apart tells of Josephine and her descendant, a single mother who moves in with her white grandmother, but soon must find...
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Author: McFadden, Bernice L.Summary:Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and...
Genre: Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction